Mk3 Pod/Induction Set Ups.

[mk3pete]

BMC CDA


soon to have bigmouth pipe & induction trupet





sorry for the pic i know it was abit dirty at the time but you get the idea lol

im loving how you have painted your cover white chris your giving me ideas

[Spyda]

I ran my mk2 without an air box at all at one stage, i guess thats like having a pod filter. It was louder with the box and was deeper. The more holes i drilled the more the growl would go up in pitch, the holes where about the size of a 20c coin.

Pod filters are for ricers. A guted air box with a K&N is the way to go.

[chris.]

im loving how you have painted your cover white chris your giving me ideas

lol didnt even relise it but it does look white in that pic lol
its actully colour coded to the car lol ( silver with blue through it + a tad of gold somthing) take a look at the strut tower)

but white would be nice hmmmmmmmm
deffanetly on a black one like yours

[MattyT]

Anyone have any benefit from the K&N Panel filter? Also noise???? I want seriouse hectik fully bamn induction

(Yes I know its only a 1.8ltr)

I had a BMC panel filter in a stock airbox before I got my CDA. No real noise increase from a fully stock setup, just slightly better throttle response.

[Water Boy]

I like the pod and ram inlet pipe on this Honda

[MattyT]

Couldnt resist

[Soundofav6]

Sorry to post hijack, but i was in the shed and had an idea.

could somehting like this work ?



could you modify your stock airbox to house a pod ?. Just by eyeing it out, it looks like it could be done with only a few mods. (smaller pod would help aswell)

I made it happen. Read my verdict.



I am still not convinced a shielded pod makes much of a difference useless Force Induction is involved.

Someone has said to me once "why bother with heat shield? When the car is running along, hot air is naturally pushed out anyways". I am sure this is open up for debate.

Nevertheless, a Cold air intake does follow a logic and does have an appeal.

[stotto]

Thats exactly what I was thinking.

awesome post, and a good read.

[mk3 gti]

I like the pod and ram inlet pipe on this Honda

thats (MAF) less tune suposed to be alot betta but fuel gose down the drain the idea is to have as little restrictions as possible to allow max air flow and swerll.

[Water Boy]

thats (MAF) less tune suposed to be alot betta but fuel gose down the drain the idea is to have as little restrictions as possible to allow max air flow and swerll.

So youré saying ist good or bad?

[Mrk_Mickey]

I think he's saying it's good, but only if you want to burn up much more fuel than normal.

I reckon it would be pointless to do a MAFless setup unless you were working the engine. If the engine was normal and you wanted a sspiced up induction, keep your MAF and swiss cheese your airbox with a new panel filter or go for an enclosed pod/CAI.

[dc10]

[MattyT]

Ah neat!!! another one to the CDA gang, and in WA too

[dc10]

it took me a while to find one. when i looked at the price of them locally, it was pretty expensive. and my jeans with the bottomless pockets were in the wash.
ebay uk ---> relatives in N. Ireland ---> then they posted out to me, worked out cheapest at the time.
i had a pod setup before. an aluminium plate with heat reflector+foam stuck to the motor side helped keep the heat out to some extent but not a lot.

CDA ftw!!!!

[dc10]

and there is a distinct growl to the CDA setup that you dont seem to get with a pod or swissbox i reckon. a much more throaty or agressive noise without sounding like a vs commowhore with extractors and some piping imitating a v8 as best it can